I find you don’t even need to make an excuse. Wait until the food is served and consumed, once that’s over with you can just quietly vanish. Anyone else who is looking for an early exit will probably… (View Post)

Reasons why Sunak is strategically incompetent no 438: We all know this policy will not find its way through parliament. If it clears the Commons, it ain’t clearing the Lords. Dispassionately, and di… (View Post)

Pretty comfortable for Sunak there, in the end. Lives to fight another day. But it feels like the crunch moment has been deferred to the new year (View Post)

The dye was cast when he decided to keep the policy. He had an opportunity to take it off the table until after the election. Any halfway savvy political operator would have done so. But he doubled d… (View Post)

I’m surprised that in a government that featured JRM they weren’t conducting government business by carrier pigeon, frankly. (But I agree with your point!) (View Post)